Expressive illumination of foliage based on implicit surfaces

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Luft;Michael Balzer;Oliver Deussen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Konstanz, Germany;University of Konstanz, Germany;University of Konstanz, Germany

  • Venue:
  • NPH'07 Proceedings of the Third Eurographics conference on Natural Phenomena
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper presents an approach for vivid representations of foliage based on implicit surfaces. It approximates the complex lighting interaction within the foliage and enables a clear illustration of its general shape and local density, thus supporting the three-dimensional depth cue of the viewer. Due to its straightforward implementation as a preprocessing step that only adjusts the normal vectors of the geometry, this method has no additional memory requirements during the rendering process, and is especially applicable to real-time visualizations.